Annual exploration of injury data issues


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3288.0: Monday, December 12, 2005 - Table 1

Abstract #111282

Elizabeth McLoughlin, ScD¹, Lois A. Fingerhut, MA², Nikolay Lipskiy, PhD³, Michele C. Lynberg, PhD MPH³, Mick Ballesteros, PhD⁴, Sara Rich, MPA⁵, and J. Lee Annest, PhD⁶. (1) Trauma Foundation, San Francisco General Hospital, Bldg 1, 1001 Potrero, San Francisco, CA 94110, 415-664-8030, liz@tf.org, (2) Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, 3311 Toledo Road, Room 6418, Hyattsville, MD 20782-2003, (3) Etiology and Surveillance Branch, CDC, NCIPC, Division of Violence Prevention, 2939 Flowers Road South, Koger Center, Vanderbilt Building, MS K-60, Atlanta, GA 30341, (4) NCIPC, DUIP, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, MS K-63, Atlanta, GA 30341, (5) NA, National MCH Center for Child Death Review, 2438 Woodlake Circle, Suite 240, Okemos, MI 48864, (6) OSP, NCIPC, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE MS-K59, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724

This session will continue the tradition of the past decade of APHA meetings, where section members discuss current issues in injury data. The following topic areas will be discussed at length: 1) Violence data - including child death reviews, the National Violent Death Reporting System and its linkage of death certificate data with police and medical examiner data; current efforts to develop instruments for sexual/partner violence surveillance; 2) Severity of injury - including new initiatives to include severity measures in administrative data including ICISS and AIS/ICD. 3) Update from the ICE meeting in June, 2005 in Cuernavaca, Mexico 4) Disaster surveillance - including lessons learned from the tsunami 5) Old business: state by state usage of external cause coding, status of ICD 10 CM; APHA member state efforts to adopt new death certificate form; hospital billing form UB-04 replacing form UB-92; research on medical misadventures.

Learning Objectives: Session objectives

increase data expertise among participants;
address difficult issues and explore potential solutions;
create networks of those committed to good data.

Keywords: Injury, Data/Surveillance

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

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Annual Exploration of Injury Data Issues

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA